1, "fire fighting" food
1, pear
The water content of pears is as high as 84%, which is tender and juicy, rich in sugar, protein, fat, carbohydrates and vitamins. Chinese medicine believes that pears are sweet and slightly sour, cool in nature, and enter the lungs and stomach meridians; Has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving hangover; It can be used for dry cough, thirst, constipation and other symptoms caused by yin deficiency caused by fever, and can also be used for polydipsia, cough and asthma, yellow phlegm and other symptoms caused by internal heat.
Pears are mainly used for relieving heat and cough. Treat cough-heat, apoplexy without language, typhoid fever, heat of Xiedanshi, and convulsion. Facilitate defecation, remove thief wind, and stop upset, asthma and fever. Moistening lung and cooling heart, eliminating phlegm and reducing inflammation, relieving sore poison and alcohol poison. Has that effect of purging pathogenic fire and treat constipation.
Li Shizhen talked about pears in Bielu, saying only its harm, not its merits. The ancients said that most diseases were related to wind-cold, and the medicine was cinnamon and attached, but they didn't know that pears had the functions of controlling wind-heat, moistening lung and cooling heart, eliminating phlegm and removing fire, and detoxifying. Sixty-seven of people's diseases today are phlegm disease and fire disease. Pears have many benefits, but they should not be eaten too much. Unfortunately, only the milk pear and goose pear can be eaten and cured, and other pears can't be cured even if they can be eaten.
2. Mangosteen
Mangosteen is rich in protein and fatty food, which has a good nourishing effect on the body, and has a good recuperating effect on infirmity, malnutrition and illness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire and beautifying skin. For people who usually like spicy food, have a strong liver fire and have poor skin, eating mangosteen often can clear away heat and detoxify and improve their skin. Those with deficiency and cold constitution should not eat more.
In addition, in Southeast Asia, mangosteen peel has been used as a traditional Thai medicine to treat abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery, infectious trauma, suppuration, chronic ulcer, gonorrhea and other diseases. In Indonesia and China, sliced and dried mangosteen shells are ground into powder to help treat dysentery, and can be used to treat eczema and other skin diseases after being made into paste. The decoction of fruit shell is used to relieve diarrhea, cystitis, gonorrhea and chronic urethritis.
3. Strawberries
Strawberry has high nutritional value and is rich in vitamin C. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that strawberry is sweet and cool, enters the spleen, stomach and lung channels, and has the functions of moistening the lungs and promoting fluid production, invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach, diuresis and detumescence, and relieving fever and dispelling summer heat. It is suitable for lung heat cough, anorexia, short urine, summer heat and polydipsia. In summer, cough due to lung heat, sore throat, excessive internal heat and long boils are easy to occur, so eating strawberries can be relatively relieved.
4. Loquat
Loquat is rich in nutrients, including various fructose, glucose, potassium, phosphorus, iron, calcium and vitamins A, B and C, etc. Among them, the carotene content is the third among all fruits. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loquat fruit has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough and quenching thirst. Peel loquat when you eat it. In addition to fresh eating, loquat meat is also made into canned sugar water, or loquat is used to make wine. Loquat contains amygdalin in leaves, fruits and kernels.
5. Soybeans
Soybeans can nourish yin and "extinguish fire", and at the same time, they can supplement protein which is consumed in large quantities. Its main nutritional components are protein, isoflavones, oligosaccharides, saponins, phospholipids, nucleic acids and so on. Traditional Chinese Medicine "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "If you eat poison by mistake, you can't spit it with raw soy beans, but you can't spit it with all kinds of bacteria. You can drink it with thick decoction, and try carbuncle and smelly abdominal pain, and chew it with raw soy beans. If it is sweet but not disgusting, it is the true symptom of carbuncle and pus on the upper part."
Appropriate supplementation of cellulose in soybean can increase and soften the food in the intestine, promote intestinal peristalsis, thus speeding up defecation, preventing constipation and reducing the risk of intestinal cancer. At the same time, dietary fiber has obvious functions of lowering plasma cholesterol, regulating gastrointestinal function and insulin level.
6. Grapes
Grape has the functions of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach, high nutritional value and sweet taste, and has always been a symbol of good luck with its fruitful appearance. Grapes in summer are high in sugar content, but they are easily absorbed by the human body. Proper consumption will not cause too much burden.
In addition, grape seed ingredients have recently appeared frequently in top brands of skin care products, and its antioxidant and maintenance effects can be seen.
7. vinegar
Vinegar is essential in cooking, especially in summer dishes. In summer, bacterial reproduction is active and intestinal infectious diseases increase. At this time, vinegar can kill all kinds of germs.
8, tomatoes
Although it can be seen all year round, tomatoes are the most abundant, sweetest and most nutritious in summer. It can also clear away heat and toxic materials, calm the liver and remove fire.
9. Duck meat
Duck meat is sweet, salty and cool. According to the treatment principle of "heat is cold" in traditional Chinese medicine, it is especially suitable for people with heat in the body, such as low fever, weakness, less food and dry stool.
10, Zizania latifolia
Zizania latifolia mainly contains protein, fat, sugar, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin E, trace carotene and minerals. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials.
2. Fruits that reduce fire
1, grapefruit, grapefruit taste sweet and sour, cold, which is very helpful to the fire. In addition, grapefruit peel, with fresh air, can bring good benefits to the environment.
2, pears, pears are cold, sweet, clearing the heart and moistening the lungs is a must-have item for the fire, pears and rock sugar can also be made into rock sugar Sydney.
3. Watermelon, which is cold in nature and sweet in taste, has many functions, such as quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, relieving annoyance, relieving sore throat and hangover.
4, bananas, bananas are cold, and have good treatment for symptoms such as dry stool, bloody stool, constipation and indigestion.
5, pitaya, pitaya is negative, has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and retreating intestinal fire. Pitaya also plays a great role in the fire, and eating pitaya can also be beautiful.